Ahead of EVM hackathon, Election Commission to meet 55 parties today

May 12, 2017 07:44

As the political tussle over the use of Electronic Voting Machines heats up, the Election Commission will on Friday meet representatives of 55 political parties, 16 of which had urged it to return to ballot papers.

The Election Commission has convened the meeting of seven national and 48 state parties to discuss the reliability of EVMs and is also likely to brief them on its planned EVM hacking challenge.

The Election Commission had trashed AAP's claim saying the machine is a look-alike and not the ECI-EVM. The date of the proposed challenge would be decided after the all-party meeting.

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